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appropriate agencies for HARDTACK use and vere being withdrawn from stocks
at Maywood Air Force Depot, California.
Farly in January 1958 these shel~
ters arrived at the port of embarkation and were subsequently transported
to Eniwetok,
By 15 April the shelters were erected and in use ty Task
Group Teds
Personal Equipment.
When Colonel Paul R. Wignall, Task Group 7.4
Deputy Commander, visited the proving ground in November and December 1957,
one area of interest was the planning for billeting and personal accomodation of Task Group 7.4 personnel.
Colonél Wignall at this time confer-
red with Colonel Stanley Sawicki, the Task Group 7.2 Commnder about the
provision of such items as "Class X" clothing and hot lockers.
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Sawicki balieved that it would not be necessary for Task Group 7.4 to
purchase hot lockers for its personnel, inasmuch as Task Group 7,2 was
considered to have on hand enough materials for the rehabilitation or cone
struction of an adequate number.
Task Group 7.2 agreed to furnish two
lockers each of 48 cubie feet capacity for each tant housing eight to ten
persons.. A "hot locker tent" for dead storage of clothing also was plamned,
Task Group 7.4 had parjected its clothing requirements to Task Group
7.2 in early November 1957, these requirements to provide four shirts,
four pairs of short trousers, and one pair of service shoes far each of
2,500 individuals.
Since no shoes were available, the requirement for! ser
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vice footwear was later deleted.